Talisman Gift...

[Shadeling]

Does the Talisman give bonus dice to each Sorcery roll or just to the sorcery pool?

[Jake Norwood]

p. 284, read both paragraphs carefully. It, similar to the bonuses for spells of 3 and many, adds dice to every use.

Jake

[Shadeling]

Thanks.

[Ace]

Since it adds to the Sorcery die roll does this mean it adds to the Aging roll as well?

The reason I am asking is lets say my Gifted guy with a Talisman needs to cast Soul Lightning

Normally you have 0 dice left in your poor to resist aging but if I had a Talisman and maybe a Familiar, well I might be able to zero out the aging

I would still be out of power but I wouldn't be older...

[Brian Leybourne]

Ace,

You're out of luck (IMO anyway). It pretty clearly says that it adds to sorcery pools when casting spells. Aging is a different roll. If you applied it to aging as well, that would be FOUR bonus dice instead of 2, which would make it too powerful, again IMO.

As it is, a major talisman is already better than say "Gift of the Ancients" (or whatever it's called) because +2 dice on all castings is far better than +3 dice in your pool (which have to refresh), so there's no reason to make the talisman even MORE powerful by doubling its benefit :-)

Brian.

[Jake Norwood]

Yeah, I'm with Brian on this one. However, if you get 2 bonus dice into casting, that's two you can save for aging.

Jake

[Ace]

Yeah, I'm with Brian on this one. However, if you get 2 bonus dice into casting, that's two you can save for aging.

Jake

That would be just as good except that IIRC all of the die pool goes into soul lightning

You would get a marginally stronger blast but thats about it

Anthony

[Jake Norwood]

Ace-

You're right. I wasn't paying attention to the lightening part. It would be only marginally smaller. Likewise, there would be 2 dice left over *after* the spell is cast from the talisman.

Jake